Nothing says science like a beetle humping a beer bottle - and it earned Professors Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz a coveted Ig Nobel prize. If you have been living under the science equivalent of a…

Here is a song called "I Am A Squid" sung to the tune of Simon&Garfunkel's "I Am A Rock." It is awesome. That is all. (I got a bit bogged down over the weekend with the process of migrating my…

Maybe they stopped by Starbucks for a little faster-than-the-speed-of-light pick me up.

. . . and I just learned a new nickname for Doryteuthis opalescens, thanks to the Redondo Beach Patch. Market squid is referred to as "candy bait" because of its effectiveness on so many different…

Twitter, in its quest to supplant Facebook among literate people and stave off a threat (or not) from GooglePlus, seems to have recently made some changes to its image utility - namely, you can now…

I was meandering around the internet during the holiday weekend, catching up on RSS feeds and the like, and found this comic by David Coverly: It reminded me of something from a few weeks ago - …

Police blotters can make fun reading, especially when they show up in your news alert for "squid," and especially when they use the word "caper": The caper began when someone used blue spray paint to…

I am not a big fan of re-posting others' stuff, but this gem seems to be hard to get and it is not just funny, but actually true, meaning that if you are for example an undergrad and you want to know…

Came across this video of comedian Louis CK on Letterman, where he argues that we should add lions as selection pressure on human beings. In his words:    “I think human beings are still…

My car Runs On Snake Oil There are far too many people trying to con money out of ordinary people with offers of gadgets that will supply you forever with free energy. ... we're a wee bit skeptical…